Pro-Life Issue Immaculate Heart Messenger Catholic Magazine October-December 2003

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Pro-Life Issue Table of contents * Good Saint Anne and Her Modern Day Apostle * Sexual Morality Needed to Preserve the Family * The Gospel, the Church and "A Woman's Right to Choose" * The Family, the Rosary, the Priesthood, and Evangelization * Solidarity with Women and Eucharistic Citizenship * Inspiration for Founding the Fatima Family Apostolate * The Supreme Court is Destroying Civilization of Love * A Baby's Life in the Womb * The Mission of the Fatima Family Apostolate * Confraternity of the Holy Rosary for Families * Editorial - Our Pro-Life Issue * The Brown Scapular of Mt. Carmel * How to Consecrate an Infant to the Immaculate Heart of Mary * Why Not Start an FFA Group? * Thank God for Purgatory * National Catholic Register Interviews Editor * Fatima Family Forum * Questions & Answers * News Briefs & Comments * FFA Chatterings Editorial - Our Pro-Life Issue In the last 20 years I have encountered more gallant and brave Catholic laity than I ever did in the first 28 years of my life in the priesthood. Before founding the Fatima Family Apostolate with its own magazine, being its own publisher, I had time to write for many national Catholic publications. I was a regular columnist for the National Catholic Register, wrote frequently for Our Sunday Visitor, and occasionally had articles in Homiletic & Pastoral Review, The Priest magazine, and the Wanderer, among others. I would receive thousands of letters. Parents across the United States and beyond would write me concerned letters about the watering down of the faith from pulpits, funny catechisms, youth being misled - often within catechetical courses that were not truly Catholic. With thousands of such letters flooding my mail box from militant Catholics who had had it with betrayals of their beloved Catholic faith, I knew what Archbishop Sheen meant when he said: "The laity will save the Church." When people, knowing that I was among those priests who would in no way compromise, would ask me if I did not get discouraged with the many forms of crisis and the fires of dissension licking at the Church, I'd answer, "No. I remain optimistic." "How can you, Father?" would come the reply. "Because I keep hearing from thousands of militant Catholic laity like you who are well instructed and formed in the truth and are unbending to compromise but willing to fight for what is right. I know I am not alone." Admittedly there are many laity who have bought into "Cafeteria Catholicism". Admittedly there are priests and bishops whose teachings are "politically correct" rather than preaching the truths of the Gospel, "in season and out of season", whether the truth is welcomed or hated. Jesus said to the first bishops and priests, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you." Thank You, Lord, I've never had that problem.

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In the last 20 years I have encountered more gallant and brave Catholic laity than I ever did in the first 28 years of my life in the priesthood.

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